Tim’s Best Performance – The Silkiness Of Remy

Newcastle manager admitted at the end of the game that it was one of Tim Krul’s best performances for Newcastle, as the goalkeeper made maybe eight top class saves to keep Newcastle’s clean sheet, but he was also helped by another fighting performance from this Newcastle side, and it was similar to last week’s game against Chelsea, in terms of the performance.

Tim Krul being congratulated after magnificent game
This is what Newcastle manager Alan Pardew had to say after the fabulous win today:

“It was one of Tim’s best performances – Wow. I think he is the best goalie in Holland and I think he proved that today.”

“His performance level has not needed to be high recently as we have not come under that sort of pressure too often, but we did today.”

“Certainly in the second half Tottenham really turned up the heat and he answered almost everything. It was an unbelievable performance.”

“But the second one he made no mistake with and it gave us a platform for the win.” “He has got a silkiness to the way he moves and a nice kind of gait, the way he runs and everything. He really is a classy-looking performer, which is great if you back it up with goals.

“It kind of elevates him and he stands out, but I thought Shola Ameobi was terrific in the 60 minutes he played. He was as important as Loic, I thought.”

Shola Ameobi and Loic Remy seem to play well together, and to beat both Chelsea and Tottenham in successive games without top stars Papiss Cisse, Hatem Ben Arfa and Fab Coloccini. shows the Newcastle squad has been improved by the five Frenchmen (make that six with Remy), that were brought in last January.

We now have home games against Norwich City and West Brom, but every game in the Premier League is a tough one, and those two games will not be easy – but we must have a decent chance of winning both those games.

A few great posts from that guardian article from spurs fans, wish our fans could give us this much credit!!

OzMan88
10 Nov 2013
First up, well done Newcastle. You were a better, more fluid team & your goalkeeper was amazing.
As for Spurs, we were slow, ponderous, lacking invention & did not play well as a team. Townsend, Eriksson, Sigurdsson & Dembele were poor. Eriksson had a really bad day & should have been off at half time but he is a good player & will have better days. Spurs are playing the way the manager wants them to but it is not the Spurs way. ‘Arry & Jol understood better than this guy what that means but neither of those looked like the MBA type young manager that ENIC wanted.
The next game away to City is going to be a nightmare. 4-0 at least unless Spurs park the bus with Sandro & Paulinho in the middle. Lennon needs to come in on the right with Lamela on the left. Townsend is too trigger happy like a pinball player. He is no Bale. How Bale must be smiling to himself. Already doing well at RM & badly missed at Spurs. He saved us last season.
Soldado needs good service & he should have Defoe alongside when we are at home.
There is no excuse for this manager. He just does not get Spurs. He will be off next season & we will be back to rebuilding. Same old Spurs story.

EL Rodway
10 Nov 2013
It’s always a bugger when a team comes with a strategy. Spurs struggle against teams with strategies. They generally struggle at home against any team that decides to show some belief in itself. When a team doesn’t bow down to our Champ Man value side we can’t wangle a 1-0 win.

Newcastle didn’t park the bus. We played that ‘we need time to gel’ football we’re becoming famous for in the first half and I’d like to really truly believe that we were unlucky not to score, but luck has already yielded 9 points this season, it was bound to run out at some point and yet again we don’t look like we could hit a monstrous cow’s arse with the world’s largest banjo, let alone score more than 1 goal. Because let’s be honest, if we’d scrambled an undeserved draw there would have been people on here claiming it was a good performance against a resolute team that parked the bus and were lucky to get a point.

If all of our players are all that classy, then it has to be someone else’s fault that we’re dull, boring, can’t score and are now being exploited. Who could it be, though? Anybody got any ideas? Oh yeah, it’s the crowd’s fault. Perhaps Daniel Levy should sack the crowd and buy a new one in? Then we’ll have no excuses whatsoever.

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UWSspur
10 Nov 2013
EL Rodway:
Excellent post, both for content and the utterly deserved snark with which it was delivered.

Where are all the “park the bus apologists” now? Newcastle came out and played and we still looked toothless. What are they doing in training–11 league matches, plus Euro, plus league cup and our midfield still look like strangers to each other.

stephenpg
10 Nov 2013
I think ‘smash & grab’ is doing Newcastle a disservice. Up to scoring, they were totally bossing the game and creating all the chances. After scoring they seemed to retreat into a typical away performance mindset, and sat back absorbing pressure.

I fancy they would have contributed far more in an attacking sense had they not scored, but they played the probabilities based on Tottenham’s relatively poor attacking threat; certainly in relation to finishing.

no doubt Pardew knew Krull was to have the best goal keeping performance for years he brought on Obertan we were lucky no more at times we were torn appart a great win but only because one player play we could have been beat 5-1 or more if he had a stinker. seems not too many fans capable of keeping their feet on the ground.

Pardew masterminded us to a win. yes tim krul was absolutely brilliant, but thats what goalies are for. We outplayed them first half, they outplayed us second. but we stayed resilient and defended very well. Pardew and the players should all take credit. And wtf are you on about stuaryno9 “pardew was a lucky man today” My f***ing god you could say that for any game, arsenal could beat norwich 3-0 but norwich could have scored 4 goals if it wasn’t for the keeper.

pardew hasn’t just got us playing as a team, we’ve been playing fluid passing football that deserved us the win along with a strong, resilient and defensive performance and a blinder from krul, well a blinder from everyone that played, they all did their jobs and came away with a well deserved win.

No its not we played better against Chelsea we deserved to win by at least 2-0 today we were lucky we were pinned in our half for most of the second half, everything went our way, long over due but it was a hard earned win, that could have went the other way Krull part in the game was massive and i can assure you i have been to more than a thousand games and many seasons without missing a single game, i know when we play well and when we get some luck along the way, like if have said many times i went to the 10 lowest attended games since my first games from 1970.

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